From Earth to orbit and back again in just SIX minutes! Incredible video from camera attached to booster rocket of shuttle Atlantis

Stunning video taken from the outside of Space Shuttle Atlantis as it leaves Earth’s atmosphere lets viewers experience life from the point of view of a rocket booster.

The camera sits alongside the now-retired ship as it makes its last journey into outer space, riding with the ship just until it leaves the planet before plunging gracefully back to Earth.

The eight minutes between the rocket booster’s launch and its splash landing in the ocean are a sensory feast, with the actual sounds of the journey mixed the help of movie magic pioneers Skywalker Sound for a special edition DVD titled Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle.

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Blast-off: A camera was mounted on the outside of space shuttle Atlantis before the program ended in June 2011

Journey: Attached to one of the solid fuel booster, the camera stays with Atlantis from launch until it reaches outer space

ATLANTIS: LAST SPACE SHUTTLE TO TAKE FLIGHT

The space shuttle Atlantis was the fourth shuttle constructed to orbit Earth and became the last shuttle to take flight after program was shut down in 2011. It is now on display at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, as the complex's flagship centerpiece.

March 30, 1980: Construction began on the fourth shuttle, which would take half the time of previous ships thanks to lessons learned from Enterprise, Columbia, and Challenger.

April 10, 1984: Construction is completed on Atlantis. With a weight of 151,315 pounds, Atlantis was 3.5 tons lighter than Columbia.

October 3, 1985: Atlantis makes its first flight. Over the next nearly 30 years, Atlantis would help launch the important space probes Magellan and Galileo, as well as the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.

July 8, 2011: Atlantis makes its final flight and the final flight of NASA's space shuttle program after logging 126,000,000 miles, 307 days in space, 191 passengers, and 33 total flights

For thirty years, Atlantis took astronauts into the heavens for a total of 33 flights.

The orbiting vehicle carried 191 daring adventurers into the sky over its lifespan, logging an astonishing total of 126,000,000 miles and 307 days in space.

The camera that captured the breathtaking footage was mounted on one of the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters.

Faster and faster: The launch pad fades into the distance along with Earth as Atlantis reaches transonic speeds

At 28 miles up, the first of two solid fuel rocket boosters is jettisoned

Going down: As the first booster falls away, Earth's edge becomes visible to the camera, which rests on the remaining booster and records all its grumbles as speeds reach nearly 3000mph

Release: Then the second booster, along with the camera, falls away. Atlantis continues on its mission and the booster's documented 4 minute fall to Earth begins

What little fuel remains can be heard fizzling in the background as the earth’s edge becomes visible.

The 150,000 foot fall continues as sights become more familiar and clouds eventually become visible.

The video ends with a giant splash as the booster, and its piggybacking camera, make their ocean landing and the speedometer hits zero after reaching speeds reaching 3000mph.

Now that the Space Shuttle program has ended—and each of the three shuttles put out to pasture—this video remains as a testament to what was once NASA’s backbone program.

Plummet: The camera catches the descent right down the length of the plummeting rocket booster. Things go from black to blue as it nears the atmosphere once again

Homeward: As the booster falls deeper into Earth's atmosphere, things become more recognizable again as clouds appear

Slow-down: Suddenly, parachutes like jelly-fish open up to help preserve the reusable booster

Its flagship, Atlantis, was the last to fly. It made its museum debut in June when the Atlantis exhibit opened to the public at Kennedy Space Center, the centerpiece of a $100 million attraction dedicated to the entire 30-year shuttle program.

Unlike its sister ships, the 155,000-pound Atlantis — tilting to the port, or left, side — has its nose 30 feet off the floor, its right wing 62 feet up and its left wing 7 feet up. Visitors can walk underneath and gaze up at its belly and the thousands of thermal tiles, and all the way around.

A six-story structure was built to accommodate Atlantis. The fourth and final wall was erected once the shuttle was towed inside last November.

Splash-down: From speeds nearing 3000mph, the booster comes to a halt with an enormous splash on the ocean's surface as its 8 minute journey ends back on Earth where it began